During the death throes of the Weimar Republic, the Nazis
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The Weimar Republic was being born, as it would die, in blood.
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Germany's Weimar Republic was hit by assassinations and violent left- and right-wing uprisings.
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The period after World War I ruined the economy of the German Weimar Republic.
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Despite the democracy of the Weimar Republic, Adolph Hitler rose to power, he continued.
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I get worried that we're in the Weimar Republic stage, when Hitler got to rise.
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Beth Irwin Lewis, George Grosz: Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic University of Wisconsin Press, 1971; reprint Princeton University Press, 1991 We tend to think of artistic repression in Germany as starting with Hitler, but the problems were already there during the Weimar Republic.
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When you slip into the period piece's sumptuous take on Weimar Republic era Germany, it shows.
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Welcome to the Weimar Republic, the setting for my — and soon yours — latest Netflix obsession, Babylon Berlin.
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Germany muddled through the Great Depression, the Weimar Republic kept going, and World War II never arose.
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This phenomenon, which Bloch called the "simultaneity of the non-simultaneous," helped bring down the Weimar Republic.
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But even if it does, Mr. Macron would inherit a fractured, ungovernable France, recalling Germany's Weimar Republic.
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Shortly after its post-World War I creation, the foundations of Germany's Weimar Republic began to quake.
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But, you may wonder, are we another Weimar Republic looking to fill a vacuum of leadership and greatness?
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She was born Margot Feist on April 2800, 1927, in Halle, in what was then the Weimar Republic.
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His works became best sellers at a time when Germans were ready to re-examine the Weimar Republic.
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The Premier League will start to look like the early days of the Weimar Republic, or late-nineties Zimbabwe.
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The German capital has led Europe's party scene since the hedonistic days of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s.
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If you live in the Weimar Republic, Kesler implicitly argues, a figure like Trump could come as a relief.
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The textbooks of the early 2000s said we should be living in the Weimar Republic, or Zimbabwe, right now.
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It's true that Farage criticized multinationals and big banks, but so did many naïve Nazis in the Weimar Republic.
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Glenn Beck on Sunday compared the political landscape in the United States to the Weimar Republic in the 1920s.
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Even with all of these scenes, Babylon Berlin is only scratching the surface of the dynamics present in Weimar Republic.
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Cabaret is set against the backdrop of Berlin during the Weimar Republic, as the Nazi Party is growing in power.
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With his program of songs popular in the Berlin of the Weimar Republic, Mr. Kaufmann dials up the swoon factor.
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Both the Kerensky interlude in Russia and the Weimar Republic in Germany failed to deliver economic security to their constituents.
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THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic By Benjamin Carter Hett Illustrated.
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The erosion of the German political middle has always been perilous, dating back to the Weimar Republic in 1918-1933.
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Correction: This story has been updated to correct the period of hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic from 1930s to 1920s.
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" The German director Ernst Lubitsch managed, during the turmoil of the Weimar Republic, to create the historical epic "Madame DuBarry.
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Before the dissolution of the Weimar Republic in 1933, German women's status was one of the most progressive in Europe.
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His modest success and the fact that Germany was in financial ruin under the Weimar Republic convinced him to stick around.
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FOR THE first time since the days of the Weimar Republic a German politician has been murdered by a xenophobic extremist.
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Meanwhile Glenn Beck, an American TV host, last month posited that his polarised country was in "probably 1926, 1928—Weimar Republic".
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What kind of parallels can you draw between now and the collapse of democracy at the end of the Weimar Republic?
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In the fraying and polarized America of Donald Trump, the Weimar Republic looks more like a mirror than a fading photograph.
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I'd seen the black and white photos of German children using bundles of money as building blocks during the Weimar Republic.
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This context makes The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic more than just another "special collection" of graphic design eye candy.
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"We had a lot of fake news during the Weimar Republic, we had fake news in the Third Reich," Mühl-Benninghaus says.
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" As David Runciman of Cambridge University has noted, "the collapse of the Weimar Republic was shot through with killing on the streets.
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Defeat led to punishing reparations, unbearable state debt and hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic, leading to a devastating devaluation of saving accounts.
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Completed in post-World War I Berlin, they are satirical critiques of the political corruption and social decadence of the Weimar Republic.
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At his death he left behind the manuscript for another Gunther novel, "Metropolis," which explores the character's life during the Weimar Republic.
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Many Germans saw the failure of the pre-World War II Weimar Republic as the failure of the country's fragmented parliamentary system.
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To change this, we should consider the lessons of the Weimar Republic of the 1930s — a place of political dysfunction and stalemate.
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The epic show takes place in the Weimar Republic, the German state that existed between WWI and the Nazi party's takeover in 1933.
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Democracy here is too well-established, and too popular, to be openly demolished in the way that Adolf Hitler ended the Weimar Republic.
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Before the Nazis came to power, the Weimar Republic had been hooked on the purest morphine and cocaine, plentiful and cheap as liquor.
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Her school and its sadistic German matron become a symbol of all that is wrong with the Weimar Republic in its death throes.
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Something similar happened during the Weimar Republic, when the German government, in defeat after World War 1, printed money to pay its bills.
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Art Review During the years of the Weimar Republic (1919-33), the Expressionist painter Max Beckmann was one of Germany's most celebrated living artists.
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We have to be careful about not being like the Weimar Republic, as in being ignorant up until the point that it's too late.
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The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic, published by Taschen, is the first compendium of book covers from Germany's doomed era of creative progress.
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Aside from the weak and ineffectual Weimar Republic of the interwar years, Germany lacked a democratic tradition from which to draw stability, norms and custom.
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A former U-boat commander who hated the Weimar Republic and longed for a moral, Christian Germany, Niemöller initially supported Hitler, voting for him twice.
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The Weimar Republic stabilized somewhat in the middle of the decade, and the Nazi share of the vote languished in the low single-digit figures.
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For many, the AfD's entrance into the Bundestag brings to mind the dark shadow of the Weimar Republic, its disastrous collapse and all that followed.
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Democracy in these countries is too well established, and too popular, to be openly demolished in the way that Adolf Hitler ended the Weimar Republic.
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Price stability is seen as a key part of the German psyche following a prolonged period of hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic in the 1930s.
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Benjamin Carter Hett deftly summarizes this dismal period in " The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic " (Henry Holt).
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By portraying the Führer as an all-dominating, quasi-demonic figure, Fest effectively placed less blame on the Weimar Republic conservatives who put Hitler in office.
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Sander (1876-1964) is revered for his series of portrait photographs called "People of the 20th Century," conceived as an encyclopedic survey of Weimar Republic society.
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Openly. There was a big debate in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s, on whether condom advertising ought to have been allowed in commercials and magazines.
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"I immersed myself in studying the Great Depression period, the Weimar Republic period, " the latter of which saw one of the worst cases of hyperinflation ever.
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However, unlike in many other Western democracies, the German constitution does not make this option straightforward, keeping the history of the unstable Weimar Republic in mind.
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The coup failed, however, and after a short stint in jail, Hitler decided it would be easier to destroy the deeply unpopular Weimar Republic by legal means.
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Like the so-called "degenerate" book covers of the Weimar Republic, these illustrations were the mass-produced, accessible products of the Expressionist, Cubist, Dadaist and Surrealist movements.
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Waits hadn't heard the German composer by then, though the European sensibilities of his new style undoubtedly have their roots in the Weimar Republic whether intentional or not.
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I think it might have developed more along the lines that German artists took between the beginning of World War I and the end of the Weimar Republic.
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All the major characters are modeled on real people, including the beleaguered Weimar Republic president, Paul von Hindenburg, and such infamous Hitler henchmen as Göring, Goebbels and Röhm.
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As Adolf Hitler's Nazi party solidified its strength in German elections, the swastika flag replaced the red, black and gold ensign of the Weimar Republic on public buildings.
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I don't ever want to go on a date again with someone obsessed with reading me sections from her dissertation on queer performance theory and Weimar Republic clown art.
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The touchstones for this approach were Weimar Republic artists like Otto Dix (who, in 1924, painted some of the mummies I photographed), Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, and Egon Schiele.
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His narrative began with Carl Schmitt, a German political thinker who sharply criticized not just the Weimar Republic, but also the basic tenets of liberal democracy and parliamentary government.
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I won't have to worry about getting my health insurance taken from me, or watch my savings shrink to nothing thanks to monetary policy on the Weimar Republic model.
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Here is proof that the Weimar Republic was the original embodiment of the phrase "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" — just replace "rock and roll" with "cabaret," and you're set.
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It described the effort by party leaders to learn lessons from the fragmentation of the Weimar Republic, when dozens of parties vied with each other and weakened the moderate centre.
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Jason Lutes first started drawing Berlin, his epic graphic novel about the disintegration of the Weimar Republic, in 1996, when the topic seemed an esoteric choice for an American storyteller.
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As a German-language noir about a little-talked about period in European history (the short-lived Weimar Republic), Berlin might sound like a tough sell, but it shouldn't be.
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"I'm very much against direct comparisons: to say that we live in the Weimar Republic again is not — luckily — true," said Mr. Kutscher, before gamely pointing out the key differences.
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Peter Paret, An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938 Cambridge University Press, 2003 Despite Grosz's experiences, the Weimar Republic was a paradise compared to the Third Reich.
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Inflation could reach one million percent by year's end, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which compares hyperinflation in Venezuela to that of the Weimar Republic in Germany following WWI.
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The rhetoric of some AfD leaders, who will now speak in the federal parliament, evoked a revival of old nationalist aspirations comparable to those towards the end of the Weimar Republic.
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The Weimar Republic was buffeted by the Great Inflation and the Great Depression, violent left- and right-wing uprisings and the humiliation of a lost war, together with a punitive peace.
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How it was going to go the way of the Weimar Republic so maybe we needed an authoritarian government to crack the whip and put the radicals back in its place.
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Barry Humphries (best known as Dame Edna Everage) and the audacious Australian cabaret singer and performance artist Meow Meow will team up for an evening of music from the Weimar Republic.
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The story follows the luckless Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) after he is released from prison into the scarcely less cruel world of the Weimar Republic, where he encounters treachery and tragedy.
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Born into a prosperous Jewish family in the Weimar Republic in 1917, her mother Franziska committed suicide when she was 19, a fact that was kept from her daughter for years.
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The struggle between the Nazis and their opponents could not be resolved through parliamentary compromise; the Weimar Republic fell to fascism and took the rest of the continent down with it.
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Reportedly the most expensive German-language television show in history, this crime drama based on a series of novels by Volker Kutscher is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic era.
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The blame, it is often said, lay with the leaders of America, Britain and France, who imposed a vengeful "Carthaginian" peace on Germany, visiting a punishment that crushed the fragile Weimar Republic.
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In 24763, the Berlin Dada artist George Grosz turned the same story into a lithographic suite, with its characters and action updated to Grosz's present (and very unsettled) world, the Weimar Republic.
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But the story is certainly long and satisfying, detailing the hopes, dreams and drama of journalist Kurt Severing and art student Marthe Muller during the Weimar Republic in pre-World War II Germany.
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Unless you were already familiar with the Weimar Republic, the period of time between 1919 and 1933 in Germany, you were probably shocked by the racy, free-wheeling lifestyle demonstrated in Babylon Berlin.
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Because these groupings drew support from the whole population rather than, as during the Weimar Republic, from narrow interest groups (Catholics, say, or blue-collar workers), they became known as Volksparteien, "people's parties".
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Soon, however, Ui learns that Dogsborough (Christopher Gurr), an aging politician—a surrogate for Paul von Hindenburg, the ill-fated President of the Weimar Republic—has taken a bribe from the Cauliflower Trust.
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Written with the unstable governments of the 1920s and 1930s and collapse of the Weimar Republic in mind, the German Constitution includes several procedural hurdles that would ensure a prolonged and difficult process.
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"Frühlingsstürme," the last operetta of the Weimar Republic, would disappear from Berlin for more than 80 years — until Saturday, when a new, reconstructed production by Barrie Kosky premiered at the Komische Oper here.
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After all, being the last operetta of the Weimar Republic doesn't make "Frühlingsstürme" inherently good; it just confers on it the unhappy honor of having opened just days before the Nazis took hold.
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A balanced budget — one where revenues match or outweigh expenditure — and price stability is a key part of the German psyche who have the memory of hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic in the 1930s.
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These ideas are noxious: the far-left version of extra-parliamentary opposition would turn Britain into the Weimar Republic and the soft-left version would politicise institutions whose authority lies in being above politics.
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Read: In "Hitler's First Hundred Days," the historian Peter Fritzsche shows how Hitler and his conservative allies crushed what remained of the Weimar Republic, in part by censoring the press and suspending civil liberties.
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"The three of us had the idea to do a big panoramic view of the society at the end of the 1920s, the Weimar Republic, before we actually knew the novels," Mr. Handloegten said.
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As the most prominent columnist of the Weimar Republic, he skewered the fashions and follies of the newly ascendant right wing in reams of satirical essays, poems and cabaret songs under five different bylines.
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While the liberals of the Weimar Republic believed that societal differences could always be resolved by amicable deliberation, Schmitt stressed the necessity of perpetual inequality, ideological conflict, and the supremacy of sovereignty above all else.
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Actually, let's scrap the whole Fantastic Beasts series and envision this—a prequel that finds young Dumbledore and Grindelwald having all kinds of erotic adventures together in the wizarding world equivalent of Germany's Weimar Republic.
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As much as Babylon Berlin fits into the long-standing fascination with the Weimar Republic, one gets the feeling it doesn't hold up the 1920s as contemporary Germany's distant mirror, but rather as everyone else's.
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After seven years as the local editor of the paper, he quit to focus on his project: a series of books that would document the Weimar Republic and the first years of the Nazi era.
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"The idea of having a director not only arrange things, but really to interpret pieces, is more or less a German invention, dating back to the time of the Weimar Republic," said Mr. Kratzer, 40.
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Imagine an update of a Weimar Republic cabaret act in which the chanteur takes his makeup cues from "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" and his fashion sense from a 1960s housewife on the verge.
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Published by Drawn & Quarterly, this chronicle of the waning years of Germany's Weimar Republic is sprawling in its historical survey but intimate in its depiction of the lives of the people living out that history.
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Taken in 1950, "Zwei Gefangene" ("Two Prisoners") is one of many striking, rarely seen photographs by Elisabeth Hase (1905–91), who documented Germany's transition from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich and its postwar devastation.
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His life spanned five states of Germany: the Weimar Republic, Hitler's Nazi Reich, the prosperous, guilt-ridden Federal Republic, the harshly run communist East, and finally the reunified country, which bestowed on him its highest honours.
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That's not the last Grosz onstage: The walls of the shape-shifting set, designed by Michael Yeargan as a capacious Art Deco club from the late Weimar Republic (think "Babylon Berlin"), are covered in his paintings.
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He's responsible for the jazzy, slinky garments in the long-running revival of Chicago, the Weimar Republic seediness of the garb in the revivals of Cabaret, and the '50s Day-Glo pizzazz of the frocks in Hairspray.
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As a review in the Times put it, "for the National Socialists, read Alternative for Germany" (AfD), the insurgent far-right party; "for the League of Nations, the European Union"; and for the Weimar Republic, modern Germany.
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After the 2008 closure of Tempelhof Airport — constructed during the Weimar Republic, expanded by Nazi Germany and immortalized by the 1948-9 Berlin Airlift — municipal leaders resisted pressure to sell the land to commercial real estate developers.
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For Germany, a balanced budget — one where revenues match or outweigh expenditure — and price stability are pillars of the nation's collective psyche, which still has memories of the hyperinflation that crippled the Weimar Republic in the 1930s.
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From Wikipedia I learned that "Gilgi" was the first novel by a writer named Irmgard Keun (1905-82), who had been the It Girl of the German literary scene in the final years of the Weimar Republic.
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For Germany, a balanced budget — one where revenues match or outweigh expenditure — and price stability are pillars of the nation's collective psyche, which still has memories of the hyperinflation that crippled the Weimar Republic in the 1920s.
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Indeed, one of the best images in the book is Höch's incredibly dense collage "Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic" (1919), which is now at the Staatliche Museen in Berlin.
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Using a kitchen knife in a work about the Weimar Republic at the beginning of the 20th century was provocative, especially in a society dominated by men and in which women were supposed to eschew any political awareness.
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Taking up several rooms of this sprawling hilltop museum, "Twilight Over Berlin" chronicles how Nazism chipped away at the creativity and reputation of dozens of artists who hit career highs in the waning years of the Weimar Republic.
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" That difficulty, for him, turned to curiosity over "how rapidly the democratic Weimar Republic, center of modern culture, could turn into a dictatorship — and how quickly this dictatorship could be transformed, again, into a relatively normal democratic society.
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It isn't the same thing as reversion: Few people think a sudden, dramatic collapse into dictatorship, like the fall of the Weimar Republic in Germany or the Peruvian "self-coup" of 1992, is likely in the near future.
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The city that shocked the straight-laced during the pre-war Weimar Republic - portrayed in the film "Cabaret" - and then became a center of counter culture during the 1960s and 1970s - to wit, David Bowie's "Berlin Trilogy" - is rocking.
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In the Weimar Republic, the country's largest party, the Social Democrats, was more committed to democracy than its Italian counterpart, but it too faltered during the Great Depression and was continually attacked by antidemocratic left- and right-wing forces.
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The Weimar Republic has long served as a kind of distant mirror in which Germans have both assessed their own progress from the excesses of the Third Reich, and kept a vigilant eye on the dangers of a relapse.
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Whether you buy that, or whether, especially given the fate of Germany's communists after 1933, this strikes you as the kind of cheap "both sides" equivocation, may influence whether you take Babylon Berlin portrait of the Weimar Republic seriously.
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Professor Bracher explored the devolution of the Weimar Republic from a fragile parliamentary democracy after World War I into a National Socialist dictatorship, which he called unique among totalitarian regimes in its epitomizing Adolf Hitler's fundamentally anti-Semitic philosophy.
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Its development paralleled that of the Weimar Republic, rising from the rubble of the First World War, flourishing in the political, economic and cultural chaos of the interwar years, and ending in 1933 with the rise of the Third Reich.
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I was there to talk about the campaign, but the conversation kept going walkabout—a German TV series about the Weimar Republic that he and Amy had just watched, a Chinese film I saw, a frightening new book on climate change.
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In addition to teaching, Professor Gordon created and directed shows in San Francisco, including "The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber" (1994), about a scandalous dancer, actress and writer during the Weimar Republic years, between the world wars.
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The result was a large community of underground music, politics, drugs and lifestyle experiments that lured foreigners along with West Germans, including the likes of David Bowie and Iggy Pop, who were drawn to a dream vision of Weimar Republic libertinism.
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Surveying the same early-20th-century economic landscape, Rudolf Hilferding, a leading figure in the Social Democratic Party during the Weimar Republic, described in his Financial Capital, published in 1919, a symbiosis at the top between large industrial complexes and banks.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The German visual artists who worked during the Weimar Republic — among them George Grosz, Hannah Höch, and Otto Dix — are celebrated the world over for their stylistic inventions and brutal critiques of bourgeois life.
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The technical name for such an organization of a nation's industry is national socialism; it helped Mussolini get the trains to run on time and it allowed Hitler to rescue the basket case of an economy he inherited from the Weimar Republic.
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Caught between the sexy, free-wheeling party scene of the Weimar Republic and the brutal crimes of a nation in flux, the viewer can easily feel like they're the one sipping on the absinthe prepared in the Moka Efti sex club basement.
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BERLIN — In the final years of the Weimar Republic, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht pushed musical theater in a radically new direction, with collaborations like "The Threepenny Opera" that remain a high-water mark for musical sophistication, dramatic daring and unsparingly dark vision.
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Attempts to enforce the eventual heavy bill (of 132 billion gold marks, or over $30 billion at the pre-war parity) – in effect imposing a huge war debt on Germany – undermined the Weimar Republic, making it vulnerable to the rise of Hitler.
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Frustrated by increasing polarization and persistent log-jams in parliament, Paul von Hindenburg, president of the Weimar Republic — that short-lived German experiment in democracy born 85033 years ago — increasingly resorted to the Weimar constitution emergency powers to circumvent the legislative process.
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Tanjev Schultz, an expert on far-right extremism, said the new threats against politicians carried echoes of the Weimar Republic, the period between the two world wars, when far-right terrorists killed a number of politicians to destabilize Germany's young democracy, ultimately succeeding.
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But "Frühlingsstürme" was open for only 10 days before Hitler took power, effectively ending the Weimar Republic — the brief but troubled period of German history that also brought about a golden age of artistic and sexual liberation, even onstage in Berlin's operettas.
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In the Weimar Republic hyperinflation was largely the result of reparation: payments imposed on Germany after World War I. In Zimbabwe it was the result of Robert Mugabe's land reform policy and the drop in food production and foreign investment that followed.
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Price stability is also a key part of the psyche of German policymakers with the memory of hyperinflation in Germany's Weimar Republic in the 1930s making officials wary of low interest rates designed to boost inflation to around the ECB's target of below 2 percent.
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His support for a "Caesarist" president, or "plebiscitary dictator of the masses", would later draw criticism that it prefigured the overthrow of the Weimar Republic by the Nazis, despite the fact that Weber's proposals mixed parliamentary and directly elected elements, and remained liberal, not authoritarian.
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So bear with me for a moment to understand why and how the legacy media and the Democratic Party first downplayed Russia's intent when it helped them, and then overreached with Trump to the point they are facing overinflation of credibility of Weimar Republic proportions.
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That was in 1933, the year in which Hitler came to power, bringing an end to the "Weimar Republic", a short period of democracy between two World Wars in Germany which also started in 1919 and, like Weimar's Bauhaus school, ended 14 years later.
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Her father, Ernst Ryneck, who was briefly mayor of the Pankow district of Berlin after World War II, had taken an anti-Nazi stance, and her grandmother, Elfriede Ryneck, was a member of the German Parliament during the Weimar Republic between the world wars.
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Hanke has studied the 279.6 cases of hyperinflation that have been recorded, from Germany's Weimar Republic to the episode I witnessed in Nicaragua, each one an earthquake that caused people to lose faith in the very foundation — the value of money — on which their lives depended.
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The books and the TV show, set in the Berlin of the 1920s and '30s, have fed into a national discussion about the Weimar Republic, the roots of German democracy, the unfathomable rise of the Nazis and the pressing question of whether history might be repeating itself.
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Strauss led the orchestra in the years leading up to its first identity crisis, the revolution of 1918, which cost the institution its royal title and patronage and forced it to create a new sense of itself in the artistically and socially volatile years of the Weimar Republic.
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Many of the letter writers were happy to see the end of the Weimar Republic, which was founded in 1919 after the German defeat in the First World War, and which they blamed for the economic state the country was left in after the war and for the Great Depression.
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Setting aside debate about whether the rise of Nazism was built into the German DNA, there were four trends that led the country to reject its post-World War I constitutional, parliamentary democracy, known as the Weimar Republic: economic depression, loss of trust in institutions, social humiliation and political blunder.
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Before coming to the Bauhaus, Gropius was associated with Arbeitsrat für Kunst (Work Council for Art), a radical socialist collective that emphasized the need for affordable housing, and many of his students and faculty shared the left politics that were flourishing in the exhilarating early days of the Weimar Republic.
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Up for remixing is Höch's lesser collage "Musiker zu Hause" (33) — her "Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic" (1919) is a photomontage masterpiece — and Kurt Schwitters's "Die Kathedrale" (1920), but both have been only minimally reinterpreted, as seen in the project's documentary ebook.
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Ohler starts from the contradiction between the Nazi leadership's vow to clean up the reputedly indulgent and pleasure-soaked culture of the Weimar Republic — constantly coded as "Jewish" — and the pervasive evidence that, within a few years, medical experts and military officials alike were pushing large quantities of Pervitin on the population.
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And he would not only become, in Mr. Ullrich's words, "a mouthpiece of the cultural pessimism" growing in right-wing circles in the Weimar Republic, but also the avatar of what Thomas Mann identified as a turning away from reason and the fundamental principles of a civil society — namely, "liberty, equality, education, optimism and belief in progress."
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Second, U.S. and Germany need to work together to anchor the future of German security in NATO, to lower costs to the U.S. of alliance support, and to avoid any future Rapallo scenarios (this was a pact between the Soviet Russia and the Weimar Republic in the 1923, when the losers of World War I expanded military cooperation).
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If you went to the Neue Galerie in New York over the summer to see George Grosz's magnificent "Eclipse of the Sun" (1926), a razor-sharp satire of corruption in the Weimar Republic, you will blink twice in front of his "Self-Portrait with Bird of Prey and Rat" (1940), which seems to have sprung from a diametrically opposed aesthetic.
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A galley of Lee Child's upcoming "Past Tense"; "The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic," by Benjamin Carter Hett; "The Lost Life of Eva Braun," by Angela Lambert; "Circe," by Madeline Miller; "So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y'all Don't Even Know," by Retta; "Less," by Andrew Sean Greer; "Atticus Finch: The Biography," by Joseph Crespino.
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Part of the Bauhaus's appeal is simply its historical context, and its Hitlerian antagonists — the Nazis were intent on making Germany great again after the nation's humiliating and economically crippling defeat in the First World War, the very event that had given rise, within a few months, to the Weimar Republic and a new art school, also in Weimar, where all hierarchies between art and design were to be abolished.
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